Martin Uhlarik – The man who sees tomorrow

Martin Uhlarik, Global Head, Design, Tata Motors Limited, has spent 27 years in the Auto industry and has worked with some of the world’s finest automotive OEMs such as Skoda, Nissan and MG amongst others, designing a wide range of production cars as well as concept cars for them. His body of work includes Skoda’s first-generation Octavia, Fabia and Superb, and Nissan’s pathbreaking SUV, the Qashqai, which according to him, was “the beginning of the SUV Crossover trend.” For the last five years he has been working with Tata Motors Limited and is in charge of the company’s three design studios across the UK, Italy and India which consists of 140 people. Having been a part of the IMPACT design philosophy, Uhlarik, has conceptualized as well as spearheaded several products and programs for Tata Motors. In fact, Uhlarik, says that working at Tata Motors, has been the most satisfying part of his career because of the amount of work he has produced and the projects that he and his team have put out in a short span, which includes helming the design of concept and production cars including Tata 45X Concept, Tata Sierra Concept, Tata Altroz EV, as well as